From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 26 14:22:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21847 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:22:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from modgud.nordicdms.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA21818 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicdms.com) Received: (qmail 9167 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 1998 21:21:21 -0000 Message-ID: <19980826212121.9162.qmail@modgud.nordicdms.com> Received: (qmail 9146 invoked from network); 26 Aug 1998 21:21:21 -0000 Received: from mail-ftp.nordicdms.com (HELO mail-ftp) (207.21.168.100) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 26 Aug 1998 21:21:21 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" Organization: Nordic Entertainment Worldwide To: "Steve Friedrich" , "FreeBSD Questions" , dhw@whistle.com Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:21:21 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 'Installation menu' always comes up when booting production server Reply-to: walton@nordicdms.com In-reply-to: <199808261708.NAA08345@laker.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Aug 98, at 13:08, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:46:29 -0700 (PDT), David Wolfskill wrote: > > >>From: "Steve Friedrich" > >>Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:55:04 -0500 > > > >>2. Most people specifically configure their machines so they WON'T reboot without human intervention to help identify > >>when an intruder has attacked the system, needing a reboot to complete his dirty deed. > > > >Really? > > > >That's the first time I've ever heard of anyone even suggesting that... > >and I've been working with computers since '69. > > > >Curious, > >david > > I got this tip recently while studying firewall design. I believe I heard (read) it from the FreeBSD community on the security > forum (freebsd-security). You might try asking there to get a feel for how many people agree with this assertion... I'd like to hear the results of that, as I have not heard of this before, either. > BTW, when I said "most people", it was within the context of unix system admin types, not the larger population of > desktop users running Winblows, Macs, or OS/Blew. You should give me this context, since this is a freebsd forum, not > a generic platform forum... 8o) If he's been using computers since '69, as he states, I seriously doubt he's talking about one of those three OSs. :) Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message